Alexander McCall Smith, a Scotsman born in Zimbabwe, writes about Africa with such love and gentle descriptiveness. Readers can feel the relief of parking under an acacia tree, which shades them from the ...

As you start reading "They Left Us Everything," Plum Johnson's memoir about cleaning out her family's longtime home following the death of her parents, you'll think she's talking about all the stuff piled ...

While the title, "The City Baker's Guide to Country Living," doesn't really fit, Louise Miller's debut novel is an enjoyable read.
I can see why she (or perhaps her publisher) picked the title: Protagonist ...

You’ll probably recognize the surname of author Sue Klebold: The name became indelibly imprinted on our collective conscience when her son, Dylan, and his friend Eric Harris killed 12 of their classmates ...

"The Circle," by David Eggers, 2013, Alfred A. Knopf.
Mae, the main character in David Eggers' novel "The Circle," is a young woman with her head in the Cloud.
In the not-too-distant-future, she takes ...